From 93259f65ff976d444e7b07b6d110288129e825b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Bodley <john.bodley@airbnb.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 11:25:49 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] [issue] Resolving issue 2530

---
 superset/connectors/sqla/models.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/superset/connectors/sqla/models.py b/superset/connectors/sqla/models.py
index d7081d2809765..9ac87b19b610b 100644
--- a/superset/connectors/sqla/models.py
+++ b/superset/connectors/sqla/models.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 from flask_babel import lazy_gettext as _
 import pandas as pd
 from past.builtins import basestring
+import six
 import sqlalchemy as sa
 from sqlalchemy import (
     and_, asc, Boolean, Column, DateTime, desc, ForeignKey, Integer, or_,
@@ -319,7 +320,7 @@ def get_template_processor(self, **kwargs):
     def get_query_str(self, query_obj):
         engine = self.database.get_sqla_engine()
         qry = self.get_sqla_query(**query_obj)
-        sql = str(
+        sql = six.text_type(
             qry.compile(
                 engine,
                 compile_kwargs={'literal_binds': True},